Bolivia: Two people arrested after sabotage of community radio

[Judi Lynn]

5.03 - Bolivia: Two people arrested after sabotage of community radio

Reporters Without Borders today noted the arrest on 3 March 2009 of two suspects, Juan Carlos and Saul Herrero Abrego, in the investigation into the sabotage of the community radio Radio Rurrenabaque, on 4 September 2008, in the department of Beni, north-eastern Colombia. The two brothers are reportedly members of the Beni Civic Committee that abducted and held a journalist on the public radio network Red Patria Nueva during a wave of violence in the autonomous regions. Elsewhere, Reporters Without Borders condemned as shameful the behaviour of the mayor of Santa Cruz in eastern Bolivia, Percy Fernandez, who insulted and assaulted journalist Marcia Cedeño, of privately owned Unitel television during a press conference on 2 March 2009, as he did with a photographer the previous week.

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=30490

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Two complete P.O.S.'s, Santa Cruz mayor, Percy Fernandez, left, and Ruben Costas, governor

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Ruben Costas and another racist, fascist clown Branko Marinkovic

[Judi Lynn]

1. There are continual references to the current neo-nazis in Bolivia for those who take the time

to watch the news, and actually think about it.

Here's a photo of a vehicle used by some of the shock troops (usually referred to as part of the "youth movement" in racist areas of Bolivia, and Venezuela) who have been engaged in carrying clubs with spikes in the ends of them, stomping into neighborhoods of indigenous Bolivians, and beating them to a pulp. They also love to go into radio stations, etc., and attack reporters for pro-indigenous newspapers, etc.

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From a typical article you would have seen last year:

Foes of Morales stage general strike in Bolivia
Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:57pm BST

~snip~
The governors want Morales to stop taking energy revenue previously earmarked for the provinces to pay for a national pension scheme. But Morales says they can afford to help with anti-poverty programs because their coffers swelled after he hiked taxes on energy companies in 2006.

"Everyone is complying with the strike ... our regions need to recover these resources," protest leader Branko Marinkovic told reporters in Santa Cruz early on Tuesday before calling Morales "a dictator."

Although Marinkovic said he wanted to avoid violence, young people were seen coming in and out of his office building carrying batons and baseball bats.

More:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN1925747220080819

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Members of Bolivia's Youth Autonomous Union of Beni

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[Judi Lynn]

2. It doesn't take someone like me to point out these are the kinds of people

with whom certain visitors to Latin American threads have always identified. Who ELSE would keep pitching fits over Latin America's steps out of bondage to the fascists?